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December 11, 2020
The following students won endowed awards from Yale University for 2019: Alexander A. McCormick, Jr. Memorial Scholarship: Kimmy Cushman George DeForest Lord Scholarship:...
December 10, 2020
Sophia Hollick was awarded the G. Howard Carragan Award from her undergraduate institution, RPI Physics Department. The G. Howard Carragan Award is an annual undergraduate...
December 9, 2020
Daniel Seara was selected as a “Rising Star in Soft and Biological Matter” at the University of Chicago. The UChicago Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium is...
Elia Mikhail, Lab Manager (1935-2020)
December 8, 2020
On November 30, 2020 Elia Mikhail who was a technician for physics passed away in Shelton, CT at the age of 85. Elia retired in 2008 after over 40 years working for PHYS 165L...
Researchers work on the assembly of the CUORE experiment before it begins taking data. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration)
December 4, 2020
December 4, 2020 is the 90th anniversary of the neutrino, a mysterious, ghostly particle that passes through most matter in the universe without being affected.    The...